Static Defense
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Static Defense is an incremental tower defense game with endless waves.
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Static Defense
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Static Defense is out now

Static Defense is out now

Static Defense is out on s&box: an incremental tower defense game with endless waves and over 200 research upgrades.

MORT
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Out now on s&box

By 
MORT
Static Defense is out today. It's a tower defense game where the waves never stop. You build towers along the road and hold the core for as long as you can. Sooner or later it falls, but every run earns research points, win or lose, and those make the next run go further.

What's in this first release

  • A tutorial and three areas, 25 sectors in all, with up to three stars in each
  • 10 towers. Each one levels up during a run and picks abilities as it earns XP
  • 9 enemies and 3 bosses guarding the gates between areas
  • Over 200 research upgrades
  • Waves on a timer, an early call for bonus gold, and game speed up to x3

What's next

The first three areas come first: I'm balancing them from how people actually play, so the numbers will move in the next few updates. More areas are already planned after that.
If something feels off, too hard, too easy or just broken, leave a review or tell me on the Discord.

Release

1.0.0
25 October 2026
Areas
26 changes in this update

Added

26 changes
Runs

  • Tower defense - build towers beside a fixed road and hold the core against endless waves

  • Waves on a timer - the next wave comes 15 seconds after the last one spawned; call it early for bonus gold

  • Upgrades and selling - level towers up during a run, sell them back for part of the cost

  • Tower XP - towers earn XP as they fight, level up and pick abilities

  • Game speed - play at x1, x2 or x3

Towers

  • Ten towers - Blaster, Lancer, Mortar, Flak, Shredder, Arc, Acid, Seeker, Prism and Frost

Enemies

  • Nine enemies - Hex, Dart, Block, Pixels, Kite, Cross, Fractal, Shard and Monolith, each with its own trick

  • Three bosses - Tesseract, Mandala and Kernel guard the gates between areas

  • Enemy cards - the first time an enemy shows up the game pauses on what it does and which towers beat it

Sectors

  • Sector map - one road down through a tutorial and three areas, 25 sectors to clear

  • Stars - up to three stars per sector; stars and clears open new sectors

  • Challenge sectors - set towers and enemies; some hand out a new tower

  • Endless sectors - see how many waves you can last

Research

  • Research tree - over 200 nodes bought with research points between runs: tower stats, new towers, global upgrades

  • Tower points - each tower group banks its own points for its own upgrades

Tutorial

  • Coach - the first sectors walk you through building, upgrading, waves and research

Achievements

  • 14 achievements - beat the three bosses, collect stars, buy research, level towers to their special and ultimate

Look and sound

  • Flat top-down look - long drawn shadows and a CRT screen effect (can be turned off)

  • Music - tracks for the map, runs and bosses that build with the danger

  • Sound effects - for every tower, hit, kill and button

Menus

  • Main menu - Continue, New game and Settings over a run the game plays by itself

  • Pause menu - music and sound volume, CRT on or off, restart or give up a run, Discord

  • More settings - opens s&box's own settings (display, graphics, volume, key binds) from the pause menu and the main menu

  • Auto pause - a run pauses when the s&box menu or the Steam overlay opens, or when you Alt+Tab out

  • Run end card - waves, kills, time, stars and rewards, plus the towers, research and sectors a run opened

  • Leave a review - from the sector map, where the next area is in the works

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